Travel
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We stock Western books in European languages, generally – but not exclusively – published before circa 1850. We are especially interested in early travel accounts – from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries – in all areas beyond Europe.
Geographical regions in which we have tended to specialise include the Pacific and its surrounding countries – South America, the Northwest Coast of America, Japan, China, the maritime regions of Asia, including the Philippines and Indonesia, and Australia. Books on Africa, the polar regions, manuscripts and separately published maps are also handled.-
[SEVILLE.]
Mercantile contract between Sebastián...
Seville, 25 July 1576.
A commercial document from the heyday of...
£1200
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SPILBERGEN, Joris van, and Jacob LE MAIRE.
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae...
Leiden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.
First Latin edition of one of the classic...
£20000
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[OSBORNE, Francis.]
Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...
London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...
First edition of Osborne’s history of...
£475
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NIEUHOF, Jean, and Jean LE CARPENTIER (translator).
L’ambassade de la compagnie orientale...
Leiden, Jacob de Meurs, 1665.
Lavishly illustrated first French edition...
£3500
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NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator).
Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668.
First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...
£5000
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[ROYAL FISHERY COMPANY.]
A Collection of Advertisements, Advices,...
London, printed for H.M. and sold by J....
First edition. The Royal Fishery Company,...
£200
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[ROYAL LUSTRING COMPANY.]
The Report of the Committee of the House...
London, E. Whitlock, 1698.
First edition; a French version appeared...
£275
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[PATERSON, William].
Proposals and reasons for constituting...
Edinburgh, [n. p.], 1701.
First edition of a plan for the setting...
£1200
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PAXTON, P[eter].
A Discourse concerning the Nature, Advantage,...
London, printed by E. P. for R. Wilkin...
First edition of this important but little-studied...
£900
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[CLIFFORD, Jeronimy].
The case of Jeronimy Clifford, merchant...
[London, n.p., 1711].
First extended account of Clifford’s...
£650
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[LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION.]
By-laws, orders, and rules, for the good...
London, [n.p.], 1722.
First edition of the by-laws of the London...
£550
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[MABBUT, George].
Sir Isaac Newton’s tables for renewing...
London, printed for Thomas Astley, 1742
Sixth edition, first published in 1686,...
£125
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BERGERET, [Guillaume].
Advertisement of M. Bergeret, Bookseller.
[Bordeaux, c. 1787.]
A very rare advertisement card of a provincial...
£75
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BARCLAY, Alexander.
Part-printed commission as Comptroller...
5 August, 1749.
After a dissolute youth and a period in...
£850
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[ALMANACK.]
The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...
London, R. Baldwin, 1761.
An interesting and extremely rare account...
£850
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TUCKER, Josiah.
Betydande frågor om handelen, wid tilfålle...
[v. Oelreich], 1763.
First Swedish edition, scarce, of this...
£200
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[MILDMAY, William, Sir.]
The Laws and Policy of England, relating...
London, printed and sold by T. Harrison...
First edition, an unjustly neglected study...
£350
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PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.
Della decima e di varie altre gravezze...
Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e...
First edition, scarce on the market, of...
£5500
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[PAPER TRADE.]
Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...
[Besançon?, 1772?]
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...
£175
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[SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]
Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe,...
Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel...
£100